Blog Category: information technology

How can iPad be of great help to your day to day activities?

24 September 2012

Developed and released by Apple Inc as an audio-visual media platform, the iPad is one of the bestselling mobile Internet devices to ever hit the market. This tablet PC falls directly between a smartphone and a laptop in terms of its weight and size, but in terms of features, the iPad excels and leaves its competition in the dust.

Although the iPad will only operate with Apple software and applications purchased directly from the Apple Store, it is still far more feature-rich than competing tablet PCs, and for Internet-based function, it bests any comparable smartphone. The iPad delivers a slew of advantages, many of which directly benefit a user’s day-to-day life.

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How to create a podcast and put it on iTunes

16 July 2012

There are many different ways to communicate with your visitors when you have a website. Some site owners use simple text, and it can work quite effectively. Other site owners enjoy creating videos and posting them all over the place. Well, you can really split the difference here by creating a podcast. This is an audio file that allows you to speak directly to your customers using an MP3 file.

Podcasts are easy to create, easy to upload and update, and visitors to your website will most definitely view your brand more seriously if you have a podcast. You will instantly come across as more trustworthy to your base at large.

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Let's review Rackspaces fanatical support promise, does it live up to the hype?

07 May 2012

When it comes to opening up a web business of any type, a website is needed. More often than not, you’re going to find that simply having a free blog is not nearly enough to get the job done. You need flexibility and adaptability. You need to be able to format your site for the mobile market, and you’re probably going to want to get in the cloud as soon as you get your feet under you. This means finding a managed hosting option with plenty of features, an affordable price, and with great support.

This is why a service like Rackspace ranks so highly amongst web business startups. Currently, Rackspace is one of the biggest names in the game, hosting dedicated and shared and virtual servers for nearly 200-thousand businesses. Their cloud hosting is amongst the most highly rated around, claiming to get any business up and running in a matter of minutes, with tons of space, an easy interface and scalability. Most of all, however, Rackspace is prized for its support.

Of course, most of the support hype comes from Rackspace itself, claiming that they offer “fanatical support.” But you wouldn’t expect any company to say otherwise, would you? So, let’s examine Rackspace’s support to see what’s so “fanatical” about it.

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How Do Websites use Cookies?

23 October 2011

If you're operating or interested in operating any type of website business, you would do well to learn about various terminology of the web and also about the many tricks of the trade used in order to calculate data. One piece of information that's great to know about before getting started is the website cookies.

If you've ever visited a website, then you've probably had a cookie on your computer. Simply put, a website cookie is a small piece of information, usually delivered in the form of a file, that's less than 250 characters.

When a visitor loads up a website, this cookie is sent to their computer. Unless the browser is cleaned and cookies are dumped, this cookie will be given back to the server the next time this person logs on to that particular website.

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